Ryan Holiday Quotes

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Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.

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There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

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Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.

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It's okay to be discouraged. It's not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you've decided to lay siege to in your own life—that's persistence.

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You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

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Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

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Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

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We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we'll break or whether we'll resist.

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Conning the conmen is one of life's most satisfying pleasures.

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What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

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The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

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The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

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True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

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An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

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